Mortgage to rent is a sure bet

We love our middle-class welfare, and mortgage-to-rent deals are just another illusion whose true cards are revealed after the fact

If you can get in on a mortgage-to-rent deal, then you’d be mad not to.

It represents one of the finest giveaways and rent-seeking opportunities in recent decades. As with many charades, what makes it so good is the obvious nature in the trick that you can only really see after the fact.

The ruse must be played as follows: say that a person who doesn’t pay their debt is a victim of ...